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Flood Watch 2, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flood watch at Jul 8, 2023, 1:35 PM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2023, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2023, 8:46 AM CDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 54 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 657 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Jul 8, 12:43 PM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 12:43 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 1:37 AM CDT, 11 hours 58 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Dodge City KS 137 AM CDT Sat Jul 8 2023 KSZ030-031-043>046-061>066-074>081-084>090-091200- Trego-Ellis-Scott-Lane-Ness-Rush-Hamilton-Kearny-Finney-Hodgeman- Pawnee-Stafford-Stanton-Grant-Haskell-Gray-Ford-Edwards-Kiowa- Pratt-Morton-Stevens-Seward-Meade-Clark-Comanche-Barber- 137 AM CDT Sat Jul 8 2023 /1237 AM MDT Sat Jul 8 2023/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Kansas, south central Kansas, southwest Kansas, and west central Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Afternoon and evening storms will be possible across western Kansas. Hail, damaging winds, and localized flooding are the main threats. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday Bouts of thunderstorms will be possible during this period. Strong to severe storms cannot be ruled out. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed this afternoon and tonight.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 24 min |
| Jul 7, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Meade | 33 min |
| Jul 7, 9:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Pratt | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 11:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Seward | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 2:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Hamilton | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 3:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Barber | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 7:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DDC | Meade | 38 hr |
Nearby
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.